From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262971AbTIRFj2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:39:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262972AbTIRFj2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:39:28 -0400 Received: from dyn-ctb-210-9-244-121.webone.com.au ([210.9.244.121]:23045 "EHLO chimp.local.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262971AbTIRFj1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Sep 2003 01:39:27 -0400 Message-ID: <3F694509.60100@cyberone.com.au> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:39:21 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030827 Debian/1.4-3 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bee71e@netscape.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: excessive swapping in 2.4.x References: <7E768FF1.7BC13987.0005DAE9@netscape.net> In-Reply-To: <7E768FF1.7BC13987.0005DAE9@netscape.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org bee71e@netscape.net wrote: >Hi, > >I am using 2.4.21 and I see an unusually large amount of swapping for relatively low load : > >sample vmstat output: (note that the system is almost idle) > > procs memory swap io system cpu >r b w swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id >0 2 0 1850220 10524 9412 703652 3030 1102 3912 1106 1506 1710 1 1 98 >0 2 0 1849188 10572 9388 700568 2780 376 3558 379 1434 1284 1 1 99 >0 5 0 1851576 11668 9404 698228 2999 479 3890 488 1499 1487 1 1 98 > >Is this a known issue? Whats happening? How do I fix this? > You could try the latest 2.4 prerelease. It has some VM updates.